RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 6 October 2004, Vol. 7, No. 40, Circulation: 827,414+ (c) 1998-2004 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ Search and share family trees: WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Learn how to find your ancestors: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Post and read messages on all relevant surname, locality, and topic Message Boards and Mailing Lists: Message Boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ Mailing Lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: News, Notes and Sites Worth Seeing 1a. Adventures Online 1c. Tips from Readers: "Doubling Up: Enumerated Twice" "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" "Irregular Search for Lost Ancestor" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Connections and Coincidences" "Tree Sprouts Branches" 3. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb 5. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 6. New User-contributed Databases 7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Label, Label, Label" "Rudeness Irks Researcher" "Charity Begins at Home" "Giving Credit--Properly" "Keeping up with Technology" 8. Humor/Humour: "Avoid This Bug at All Costs" 9. Submissions, Subscriptions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. EDITOR'S DESK. News, Notes and Sites Worth Seeing 24/7 SEARCHES AT ANCESTRY.COM If you're an Ancestry.com subscriber, family history searches have just became much more convenient. It has recently added a feature called PILF -- People I'm Looking For. PILF searches every database on Ancestry.com for your ancestors. Of course, you need to provide some basic informa- tion about your ancestors first and then let PILF do the rest. To access the PEOPLE I'M LOOKING FOR feature, log on to Ancestry.com and click the MY ANCESTRY tab. You will be directed to a page where you'll see the heading PEOPLE I'M LOOKING FOR. Click one of the plus signs to add a new name, then fill in any basic information you know (such as name and date and place of birth, marriage, and death) for each person you add. Click SAVE and the continuous search through the millions of records on Ancestry.com will begin. Ancestry.com will send you e-mail updates when possible matches are found. You control the frequency of these messages -- receive updates once a week, twice a month or once a month. (You can change message frequency by logging into Ancestry.com and clicking on MY ACCOUNT). You can also add individuals to your PILF list while you are researching. Did you find your great-great-grandfather in a 1900 U.S. census image? Click on the SAVE icon or text next to the record, and the individual you found will be saved in your list of PEOPLE I'M LOOKING FOR. Put your Ancestry.com subscription to its full use by utilizing this handy new feature. http://www.ancestry.com/myancestry/ * * * CONNECTING U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. In a recent New York Times article Gary Boyd Roberts, New England Historic Genealogical Society's senior research scholar, provides some interesting family connections between presidential candidates John Kerry and incumbent George W. Bush Roberts found that Bush and Kerry are related through at least eight Massachusetts and English ancestors who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Their closest relationship is that of ninth cousins twice removed (9C2R) with the common ancestor being Edmund READE (1563-1623) of Wickford (Essex County) England. Among their shared ancestors are: Henry HERRICK, of Salem, Massachusetts; Thomas RICHARDS of Weymouth, Massachusetts; John DWIGHT of Dedham, Massachusetts; the Rev. Edward BULKELEY of Odell, Bedfordshire; Richard CLAPP of Sidbury, Devon; Henry SHERMAN of Dedham, Essex; and John MANNING of Downe, Kent. Many RootsWeb Review readers probably share some of these ancestors, too. The New England Historic Genealogical Society's website is at: http://www.nehgs.org/ * * * BRITISH MARITIME HISTORY. Genealogical guides for researching mariners in both the British merchant service and the Royal Navy (the former from 1835 and the latter from 1793) are available at: http://www.barnettresearch.freeserve.co.uk/ * * * 1b. ADVENTURES ONLINE When Susan STERLING decided to research her family history she tackled the subject with the same methodical approach she used in every other aspect of her life. You see, Susan is an organized person. She has every knife, fork, and spoon in her kitchen drawer in its proper partition in the silverware tray and all of her CDs and DVDs are alphabetized and categorized. Before Susan began to enter information in her new genealogy program, she took the time to learn the proper method to record family history. In addition to reading books and articles on the subject, she searched the Internet and found the RootsWeb Guides: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Guide No. 12 -- "Creating Worthwhile Genealogies: Evidence, Sources and Citation" -- provided tips on how to gather and weigh evidence and how to cite the sources of each piece of information. Susan gathered all her the information together and entered it into her genealogy program. She knew that every bit of data she recorded had been obtained either from some document or from some person and were her sources. During her research she discovered that not all sources are equal in reliability, so she tried to view and copy original records such as birth, baptismal, marriage and death certificates, where possible. She learned that records recorded closest to the event being documented were usually the most reliable -- provided the person giving the information knew the facts and did not have any reason to falsify data. She also searched for family Bibles, church and military records; tracked down wills and probate, and even found some deeds and old school records that were helpful. For the most recent generations of her ancestry Susan was looking exclusively at families that lived in the United States, so to complement her research she subscribed to the U.S. Census Records Collection available at Ancestry.com so that she could view actual original images. Susan wanted to see them for herself in hopes of supporting or refuting information she had found about her ancestors from other sources. She also studied the RootsWeb Guide about using American census records for maximum success and about determining the official dates of the various enumerations. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson9.htm Then Susan hit her first roadblock. She had conflicting evidence for an event she wished to enter in her file. Grandaunt Sabina HORNBLOWER was listed on the 1900 U.S. census with a birth month and year of September 1898; the 1910 census indicated Sabina was age 11 and the 1920 census gave her age as 21. So far so good. But, Sabina's death certificate listed her birthdate as September 10, 1904 and the 1930 census listed Sabina as age 25 as did her marriage certificate from December 1929. Susan listed all the conflicting evidence in the notes of her genealogy program but she wanted to establish which of these records should be accepted as being the best evidence and which was most likely to be accurate. Since grandaunt Sabina HORNBLOWER could not possibly have been born in 1904 and appear on the 1900 census -- the evidence pointing to 1904 as her birth year was rendered impossible on the face of it. Additionally, her husband Rex ROTHCHILD had supplied the information for the death certificate and, while Rex certainly would have known how long the couple was married and other facts listed on the form, he might not have known his wife's correct birth year or he just might have given the wrong information. However, family gossip had it that Sabina was a bit vain and not at all forthcoming with the fact that she was a bit older than Rex who was born in October 1903. Had she shaved a few years off her age when she told him she was "only 25" when they married in December 1929 and then kept her true age secret from that point on? The early records prior to Sabina's marriage were all consistent with a birthdate of 10 September 1898, with only the marriage and death records, and 1930 census record supporting 1904 as the year of birth. Susan recorded 10 September 1898 as Sabina's birthdate. In the notes she explained that she was accepting the records established closest to Sabina's birth as being the most accurate and documented the fact that no birth certificate or baptismal record could be located for her grand- aunt. Susan also noted that her grandaunt might have had reason to falsify her age because of her concern for being older than her husband. Susan's next challenge was dealing with some flimsy evidence. She had only second-hand hearsay evidence as a source for her great-grandmother Martha GEIST's birthdate -- the fact that Uncle Harry DEMENT said he had been told as a child that his grandmother had been born on 1 December 1880. While oral history is a source of information, Susan knew that Uncle Harry's memory was not always clear these days. Try as she might Susan couldn't locate Martha on the 1900 census. Martha had died in childbirth prior to the 1910 census, making a thorny research problem. Susan knew where Martha was buried and when she died but none of the records she could locate listed Martha's birthdate or age. Therefore, Susan listed the December 1880 date as being her great- grandmother's birthdate, but also noted her source as being the possibly unreliable childhood recollection of Harry DEMENT, her uncle. Susan meticulously recorded every name, date, and place and relationship and included the source documentation from which she had obtained the entry. Now she was becoming eager to place her family history database online so that it could be publicly accessed by others and hopefully other cousins would contact her to add new information and to correct any errors. Perhaps someone out there would have better information about her great-grandmother's date of birth than what Uncle Harry had contributed. What will Susan do next? Where will she upload her family tree? Will her cousins find it? Check back next week to find out. * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS Doubling Up: Enumerated Twice By Linda Davis of Amelia Island, Florida, USA In the 1880 census of Charlton County, Georgia, my grandfather was enumerated in his parent's household as Cyrus A. THOMPSON instead of Silas H. THOMPSON. I guess the census taker had poor hearing. In the 1870 census of the same county, my great-grandmother Nellie SELLERS was enumerated in her parents' household. The same family was also in the 1870 Baker County, Florida, which is just across the St. Mary's River from Charlton County, Georgia. That was double luck, but some Sellers researchers can't believe that could happen. It did. * * * Sprechen Sie Deutsch? By Bruce Vernor Enjoyed the "Erin Go Braugh" tips from Terrence Seamon in last week's RootsWeb Review. I suggest that the "i" in Simon in German would be pronounced as a long "e" and the "o" sound as in "go." I conclude that SEAMON was the adaptation made by the immigrant SIMON so his name would be pronounced close to the German. * * * Irregular Search for Lost Ancestor By Lorraine Gibson Head in Canada After searching the 1881 Canadian census for my great-grandfather (Godfrey Rawstrone GIBSON) and his parents for more then two years without any luck. I began to think that they must have either left the country or vanished into thin air. But a few weeks ago I thought that seeing as Godfrey was not a very common first name, I would try a first-name search, I didn't expect much in results but thought it worth a try. Well, to my great surprise I found a listing for (Godfrey RAWSTONE) with RAWSTONE not GIBSON as the surname, along with his parents and a younger brother, living in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Sometimes running a rather unorthodox search of a name can prove worthwhile. * * * Have you solved a pesky research problem? Share it with the RootsWeb Review readers. Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Connections and Coincidences By Rosemary Mort in South Wales, UK I was searching for my grandfather, James Henry CRAHART. He died during World War I, apparently by his own hand, but that was all my father knew, and as his mother had remarried and moved from Cornwall to South Wales, he'd lost touch with any surviving relatives. There was no photograph of his father and no death certificate. At this time, I told a work colleague of my search and he suggested I check a particular search engine, one I wouldn't normally use. There, incredibly, was the name of a woman also looking for James Henry. I e-mailed her and discovered that, while she was not related to him, she was a distant cousin of mine through my grandmother and her second husband and hadn't been aware of James Henry's existence until she'd started her family history. Equally amazingly, she had the only photograph of my grandfather, taken with his wife and their three sons, one of whom was my father. I now have a copy of that photograph, framed and on display. I eventually traced James Henry CRAHART's death certificate -- his name had been spelled with a G instead of a C -- and found the facts behind his death. He'd shot himself because his wife had left him, taking the children, and she was pregnant by the man who became her second husband. I read the inquest on his death and the report of his funeral, which was a full military funeral. I went to Northumberland where he'd been stationed with his battalion and, by another coincidence, I found his grave -- exactly 86 years to the day that he was buried. Many may disagree with me, but I feel that he was just as much a victim of that war; he just lost a different kind of battle. * * * Tree Sprouts Branches By Randy Sanwick I would like to thank Ancestry.com for its help in finding a part of our family tree. I have been tracing our family tree for more than five years using the website. I didn't have much to start with, just what people in the family could remember, and a few documents. One piece I had was a birth certificate from 1953. All I had was a name and wasn't sure that was right. I placed a message on your message board four years ago and then I finally got an answer. A long-lost cousin found the message. She e- mailed me, and we found out that she was the name on the birth certificate I had. She didn't even know she had other relatives. Now she has gained a whole new family of about 150 people, including a niece she didn't know about . . . All this time (50-plus years) her family thought it was alone. Now we have connected and have been having a great time finding out about each other. * * * Do you have an online "connecting" story to share? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 3. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brand-new mailing lists can be found under OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS until moved to their proper categories. For information and an index to the more than 28,500 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BAULTZETT CROUT DITZLER LAMBERSON VANSKIVER NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS ME-CEMETERIES -- Genealogical discussions regarding cemeteries in Maine USS-THRESHER-SSN593 -- Genealogical and historical discussions of the USS THRESHER (SSN-593), which was lost at sea 10 April 1963 on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these webpages might not yet be accessible. They are created by volunteers, so if one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or next week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[accountname] Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. For example, the Monroe County (Ohio) Historical Society website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmchs/ U.S.A. mdgwnar -- Native American Resources for Maryland GenWeb moichs -- Iron County (Missouri) Historical Society nyga1812 -- Maj. George Armistead (New York) Chapter War 1812 ohmchs -- Monroe County (Ohio) Historical Society okccgs2 -- Choctaw County (Oklahoma) Genealogical Society oklchs -- Love County (Oklahoma) Historical Society paudc -- Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Chapter UDC txfcvzdr -- Frances Cooke Van Zandt (Texas) Chapter DRT Key: DAR--Daughters of the American Revolution DRT--Daughters of the Republic of Texas FHS--Family History Society USD--U.S. Daughters of the War of 1812 5. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- Do you have a new, updated, or substantially revised website located at RootsWeb (it will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL)? Please send the URL (Web address), along with a brief description, including the major pertinent surnames and what is available on your site, to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com FEATHERSTONE. Featherstones who lived in the counties of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex in England can be found in this WorldConnect database: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kentfeather GERHARDT, GARR, McGUIRE, MAGUIRE, McDADE, McGURK, DEVLIN, QUINN, FARREN, FAREN, and FEARNS of German, Irish, French, and English ancestry. Localities include: Ireland, Prussia, and Scotland; Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Illinois, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in the United States. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tothemax/ GROVES, STRATMAN, PRICE, MCLAIN, SHIP, MILLER, TUGGLE, ADAMS, FLETCHER, RIDDLE, HART, HARRIS, BURBRIDGE, YATES, INMAN, SMITH, and many more. Genealogy of families predominately from Kentucky, southern Illinois, Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sandras/ MASSACHUSETTS. Tewksbury State Hospital Cemetery, An ongoing project creating a database of those interred here from 1903-1971. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tewksburyhospital/cemeterywelcome.html NEW ZEALAND. Miscellaneous New Zealand War Deaths, 1914-1923; from a file at National Archives, Wellington. Contains 1,853 names. Many of these are not on the CWGC or in the NZ Roll of Honour book. --The Second Battle for the Somme -- March/April 1918. A list of the 982 New Zealanders who were killed in action or died of wounds --Passchendaele -- October 1917. A list of the 1,200 New Zealanders whose bodies were never recovered at Passchendaele. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/ Note: Comments and questions about any of these independently authored webpages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters. 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb ---------------------------------------------- The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. Search: To look for specific data or occurrence of text in a file. Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. CALIFORNIA. Humboldt County. 1864 Militia Roll; 411 records; Karen Hendricks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ GEORGIA. Columbia County. Free Persons of Colour, 1819; 68 records; Mary C. Blood http://userdb.rootsweb.com/colored/ NEW JERSEY. York County. Family Bible: Joshua and Lucy Eaton and Descendants, 1745-1881; 22 records; Tara Rainier http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ PENNSYLVANIA. Huntingdon County. Huntingdon. Huntingdon High School graduates 1902-1921; 212 records; Liesje Germ http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Richmond (Independent City), Bellevue Junior High School Class of 1927; 31 records; North Side Junior High School Class of 1927, 76 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ St. Paul's Methodist Church. Special Sunday School exercises as reported in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1927; 27 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ U.S.A. Military Records. Officers 300th Infantry, February 1943, Fort Benning, Georgia; 165 records; Nancy Smith http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ Passenger Lists. Ship "Bridgewater," sailing from Liverpool to New York 18 July 1864; 195 records; Margaret L. Busteed-Remon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/passenger/ Does your alma mater, old military unit, church, parish, province, county or state have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists of names or databases -- other than your personal genealogy -- that you would like to share and that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host them. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ 7. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Label, Label, Label By Angie Telepenko The best thing you can do for future generations is to clearly label photos with the date, place (if relevant) and, most importantly, the names of the people in the photo. My grandmother has a large box of photos that are all more than 100 years old, and we know they were my great-grandmother's relatives, but very few have names on them, and there is nobody now alive who could identify these people. It is frustrating because most of them are in very good condition and they could be a wonderful resource, but nobody knows who they are! * * * Rudeness Irks Researcher By Sue Baldwin in Cape Coral, Florida I was contacted through e-mail by a woman doing research on a family member for a book. She was looking for any information I had on this woman. Unfortunately I had little but the names of her sisters and parents and where she was born. I sent her what I had and told her if she needed further information please contact me. I didn't even get the courtesy of a reply. After a few weeks I sent her another e-mail asking if she had even gotten my e- mail -- so far dead silence. This particular woman had asked for letters and pictures also. Sure am glad I didn't have any to send her! I would love the chance to tell her just that. This has happened before, folks sending me messages and asking if I am a member of so-and-so family or related to so-and-so. I always answer and give them what information I have. They frequently don't have the courtesy to either tell me if we are related or even answer, I find this unbearably rude. Please people -- if you e-mail someone and they answer, be prepared to at least acknowledge the fact that they have bothered to answer you. * * * Charity Begins at Home By Connie Trier Several years ago a maiden aunt of my husband's died and named his mother as administrator of her estate. Much to his mother's dismay everything in the estate was left to a charity -- no exceptions were made. That meant all the family photos and letters (and there were many) were put into the hands of strangers who didn't know or care about the people pictured in them. It might be prudent to send a "Dear Family" letter asking everyone to make provisions for family photos and letters in the event of their death. * * * Giving Credit--Properly By Dan Craycraft As a long-time subscriber to RootsWeb Review, I have read the comments of many people who object (rightly) to people plagiarizing their work. I am, unintentionally, one of those people. I have gathered data from various contributors for over 15 years. Unfortunately, when one uploads the GEDCOM file to WorldConnect, there is no easy way to give credit to the hundreds of individuals who contributed the data. When I am contacted by someone who finds a connection to individuals listed in my files, I always give the original source of my data and never claim credit for the investigative work that went into obtaining the information. Where possible, I attach a Post-em Note" in my WorldConnect database, to the starting individuals for a particular family line and in the note give credit to the originator of the work. So, to all of you irate individuals, what would you have us do? Should we delete all of the information in our database, which we did not personally research, simply because we cannot give you credit? What a loss to the Internet genealogy world! Is your desire for credit so great that you would deprive hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals, of your information? Sadly, I must admit, that I have deleted hundreds of "married-in" family lines from my data simply because I have received many irate e-mails as to where I obtained my data. It is just not worth the effort. I now restrict my database to my direct family line and the genealogy community has lost a valuable resource. [Editor's Note: Plagiarism and copyright infringement are two things that are often confused and many family historians are misinformed about them, often wrongly accusing their cousins of one or the other. While the courteous and careful genealogist cites her or his sources of facts and gives credit where due, this is a learned skill. Most new family historians are not even aware that they should record and cite their sources. See George G. Morgan's "Citation Corner Index Page" for several excellent articles pertaining to this subject. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=4696 Keep in mind that the majority of information in any genealogical work is in the public domain by virtue of being facts or presumed facts. "The facts contained in existing compilations, which is what most genealogical works are, 'may be freely copied because copyright protects only the elements that owe their origin to the compiler -- the selection, coordination, and arrangements of facts.'"] Thanks to Michael Goad and his website on the subject at: http://stellar-one.com/copyrightgenealogy/not_everything.htm For additional information on this subject, please see: http://stellar-one.com/copyrightgenealogy/plagiarism.htm http://stellar-one.com/copyrightgenealogy/copyright_law_facts.htm http://stellar-one.com/copyright_and_genealogy/feist.htm * * * Keeping up with Technology By Bob Gowan in Aylmer, Quebec In last week's RootsWeb Review was a letter that said, in part, "I've read in photo trade journals that the life expectancy of current CD disks stored in home or office is 30 years. Printing photos from the scanned images for long-term viability may be advisable." While I would not argue against making prints, I think the writer has at least partially missed the point. When CDs first became popular, we were told they should last 100 years or more. In recent years, there has been some evidence that this probably overestimates their longevity, if not stored properly. We've also heard that glued labels may affect their life span. But whether 30 years, 50 years, 100 years, the point is that, as with any form of electronic backup, we need to maintain our backups. Just as paper-cased floppy disks (160K, 320K, 640K, then 1.2M) were replaced by plastic-cased diskettes (720K, then 1.44M), and just as these are being replaced by CDs (640M, 700M, etc.) and DVDs (4.7G, 7.4G), CDs/DVDs will also be replaced by newer, larger capacity, faster reading, possibly longer-enduring media, to be developed in the next 5, 10, 20, 30, etc. years. And just as we needed to copy over all of our floppy backups to CD or DVD, we will also need to copy over all our CDs to the next "standard" backup media and so on. But we can rest assured that each transfer will be necessary long before the current media have deteriorated. It will also be faster and easier than converting our floppies. And when we run out of space for storing all those printed copies, we will glad we have kept our digital archives up to date. 8. Humor/Humour: Avoid This Bug at All Costs -------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Mabel Phillips in Missouri The "Visitation of God" as a cause of death reminded me of the most common cause of death listed in a mortuary whose records I transcribed. Nearly half of the people died of the same thing -- "complications." To survive, simplify! * * * Found a humorous entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 9. 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